Commercials like this wouldn't go over well stateside, especially if you're trying to sell cheese. But in Egypt, this creepy, insolent and really mean panda has become a hit. Of course, it went viral this week.
And I share it with you, since um, this is kind of food blog-appropriate in a twisted kind of way.
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Some pundits are
reading between the lines, drawing parallels to geopolitics which may
or may not be there; but I think everyone's in agreement that it's
funny. Really funny. And proof that violent pandas are just as
hilarious as sneezing ones.
Before becoming an award-winning restaurant critic for OC Weekly in 2007, Edwin Goei went by the alias “elmomonster” on his blog Monster Munching, in which he once wrote a whole review in haiku.